Gretchen Lida is an essayist and an equestrian. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Brevity, The Rumpus, The Washington Independent Review of Books, and many others. She teaches composition in Illinois, lives in Wisconsin, sometimes lives on Nantucket Island and is still a Colorado Native.
These animal memoirs are perfect for readers who cannot get enough animal love in their life.
What if we used our time on the towel to grapple with hard truths?
A reader discusses the dark days that surround their GAME OF THRONES reading experience and that keep them from watching the show.
A reader's love letter to Black and Read, a cluttered part bookstore and part record shop in Arvada, Colorado that inspired her literary life.
A reader turned to trekking books for tales of adventure and came away with the observation that the genre has a dearth of books by marginalized people.
A reader set out to learn something new from memoirs read this year. Here's a list of each of those memoirs, along with a lesson learned from each.